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Exploring healing through meditation, Jack shares on kundalini, addiction, suffering, and the transformation of having an ‘in body experience.’

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“You have heard of ‘out of the body experiences,’ but what we’re after is something more unusual and important, an ‘in the body experience.'” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

- Finding strength, wakefulness, and compassion amidst it all

- The Coconut Monk and the Jesus-Buddha connection

- Finding compassion and joy despite suffering and war

- Healing—what it is, how it arises, and how we can connect with it

- Listening and respect as the ground for healing

- Finding and living a path with heart

- Mindfulness, breath, attention, noting, and the Buddha

- Meditation and having an ‘in-body experience’

- Kundalini and opening the energy body

- Learning to handle both pleasure and pain

- Buddha and finding the Middle Way

- The healing of reconnecting with our senses and world around us

- What addictions really mean in an addicted society

- Facing our suffering as the gateway to the precious mystery of life

- Reading children’s direct messages to God

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“There’s a healing that comes just in reconnecting with the senses and the world around us.” – Jack Kornfield

“As we begin to practice together, we can sense that meditation and spiritual work is to bring a heartfelt awareness to our life, and out of this there comes an awakening or opening, which we call healing.” – Jack Kornfield

This episode recorded in late December 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

This week's Mindrolling is a collection of some of the best moments from Raghu’s interviews with mindfulness and metta experts Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg.

In this special episode:

- Clip 1 (Ep. 65): Raghu and Joseph explore the foundations of mindfulness, the influence of habits, and how everything hinges on the tip of motivation.

- Clip 2 (Ep. 44): Raghu and Sharon discuss metta practice and practical ways to connect with others through loving-kindness.

- Clip 3 (Ep. 224): Raghu and Joseph delve into the realities of mindfulness and how the craving for becoming can hijack our meditation practice.

- Clip 4 (Ep. 225): Raghu and Sharon touch on the Eightfold Path, the balance of equanimity and effort, and the universal truth of starting over.

- Clip 5 (Ep. 457): Joseph leads a meditation on awareness, beautifully punctuated with a haiku poem.

“And we can suffuse the whole field of mindfulness with the feeling of loving-kindness. Friendliness towards our own experience and well-wishing for all others. May all beings be at peace.” – Joseph Goldstein

Deeply unveiling the Buddha’s transformative miracle of awakening, Jack provides a comprehensive guide to finding freedom in everyday life.

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“We’re asked to discover in this dance the possibility of awakening in the midst of our life, to turn what we do into something sacred.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

- What happened to the Buddha when he sat under the Bodhi Tree

- What Buddha’s enlightenment means for the world

- Bodh Gaya and the possibility of awakening through nature

- Buddha’s path as a yogi, and how he dealt with his spiritual powers

- The Buddha's miracle of awakening and education

- Reflections and questions from the Buddha for how you are living

- Keeping freshness and “beginner’s mind” in your practice

- Parenting, schooling, and the different styles of education

- Finding freedom in the difficulties and direct circumstances of your life

- The real possibility of awakening in the midst of life

- The Ten Paramitas, Buddhism’s Ten Perfections

- What walking meditation is actually about

- Why Thich Nhat Hanh does everything slowly and mindfully

- Patience, listening, and presence

- Spiritual life as the education of awakening

- Listening deeply for the Tao, Dharma, truth

“Spiritual life kindles in us an interest, an attention, a passion to awaken.” – Jack Kornfield

“Meditation is the art of doing what we do and bringing our senses, our heart, our whole being to that.” – Jack Kornfield

This episode recorded on 10/01/1990 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

In this fresh Dharma Talk, Jack reveals how listening from the heart can empower you to transform yourself and the world.

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“Difficult times call on our best spirit.” – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Navigating life skillfully through difficult times

How we can change ourselves and the world through true listening

The two dimensions of mindfulness: Sati (mindful presence) and Sampajanna (mindful response)

How deep listening leads to compassionate response

Using our difficulties as doorways of opportunity to help us awaken

Reflecting on how we respond to the troubles of the world

The art of listening and how it brings us into the present moment

How taking a “sacred pause” leads to more possibilities

The childlike playfulness and joy between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Jack tells a transformational and moving story of Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, the miraculous Tibetan physician.

How all the problems and conflicts of the world are symptoms, and the solution is in the human heart

Activism, service, and helping with an open heart

Listening deeply to sense the universal truths of reality

The powerful prayer of Black Elk, the mystical Lakota medicine man

Listening inwardly, tending the heart, and honing your intuition

“The very difficulties you have are the place that truly awakens the heart.” – Jack Kornfield

“Quiet the mind, take time, tend the heart, listen inwardly, listen to one another, listen to the earth—and you will know what to do.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk originally took place for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on 4/15/24. To join his next livestream, please check out Jack’s events calendar.

For the first episode of The Four Sacred Gifts Podcast, Anita Sanchez sits down with Māori healer Donna Kerridge for a conversation about re-connecting to Mother Earth and healing the land and the people who live on it.

In this episode, Anita Sanchez dives into:

Biodiversity and the lands of Indigenous people

The interconnectivity of nature and humans

Incorporating modern medicine with Indigenous knowledge

How losing connection to Mother Earth and community can cause anxiety and other health issues

The individual gifts that we bring into the world

Being inclusive and finding our sense of home and belonging in the world

Healing the vitality of people and place

Talking to people, not corporations

How laws will never change the lore that underpins human life

Maintaining a balance between appropriation and welcoming others into Indigenous communities

About Donna Kerridge:

Donna Kerridge is a Rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing) practitioner from Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand who is deeply connected to our Earth and her wisdom. She is a humble advocate, healer and leader, passionate about Indigenous practices that focus on healing and restoring our people and our Whenua (land). Donna is able to walk with ease in corporate and policy circles, bridging Western approaches with Indigenous Māori approaches to enable us to bring the best of our collective gifts forward. She advises the New Zealand Ministry of Health to shape policy, lectures, and educates people of all ages in Rongoā, has studied Western health science and a range of Indigenous healing practices, and is a sought-after leader.

“I want to remind everybody that we are all indigenous somewhere; some of us have just become disconnected. I think it is the job of all of us to connect to our roots, even if it is through the roots of the land that you now reside upon.” – Donna Kerridge

Exploring the meaning of non-clinging, Joseph Goldstein outlines the three types of cravings explained by the Buddha.

This episode is the fifth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta, one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. If you are just jumping into the series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience: https://youtu.be/RfuH9O7DS4o

In this episode of the Satipatthana Sutta series, Joseph Goldstein discusses:

- How craving can consume our entire being

- The thirst for sense pleasures and how they keep us dependent

- How society feeds and fosters our sense of desire and craving

- Clinging to and longing for certain mind-states

- The primal thirst for continued existence

- How expectation takes out of the present moment

- Abiding in empty, open awareness

- The craving for non-existence during painful times

- Dependence through view and the felt sense of "I"

- How to accomplish the deconstruction of self

“When in the seen just the seen, in the heard just the heard, in the sense just the sensed, in the cognized just the cognized, then you will not be influenced by what arises, not carried away by craving.” – Joseph Goldstein

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

Using modern tools to support inner transformation, ServiceSpace founder Nipun Mehta offers innovative solutions for turning artificial intelligence into collective heart intelligence.

Learn more about ServiceSpace’s unique model of organizing small acts of service at servicespace.org

In this episode, Nipun and Raghu chat about:

Nipun’s upbringing and finding the infinity behind each moment

Living a life of service

Using artificial intelligence for inner transformation and the emergence of compassion

Fear of AI versus it’s potential positive uses

Collective heart Intelligence versus today’s artificial intelligence

Taking care of others as others take care of you

Nipun and his wife’s pilgrimage through India

Looking at what we can do to offer kindness to the world

Being sustainable through being related

The physical and emotional rewards of being generous

Shifting from transaction into relationship

About Nipun Mehta:

Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace (formerly CharityFocus), an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology, and the gift economy. What started as an experiment with four friends in Silicon Valley has now grown to a global ecosystem of over 400,000 members that has delivered millions of dollars in service for free. Mehta has received many awards, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the President’s Volunteer Service Award, and Wavy Gravy’s Humanitarian award. He serves on the advisory boards of the Seva Foundation, the Dalai Lama Foundation, and the Greater Good Science Center. Check out some of Nipun’s TedTalks HERE and HERE.

“Can we bring in this vision, this intention, this possibility? Can our modern tools support our inner transformation, which then can out of a heart of service flow out into the world through a very different design pattern?” – Nipun Mehta

In this special episode originally airing on television’s Thinking Allowed series, Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jack Kornfield about meditation, mindfulness, and self-acceptance.

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“The purpose of meditation is to make people happy.” – Jack Kornfield

In this special television episode, Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jack about:

How western psychology and science fits together with eastern spirituality and meditation

Whether Jack preferred getting his Ph.D. or his time at the Buddhist monastery

The three aspects of Buddhist practice: generosity, ethics/virtue, training of heart/mind

How what we practice, positive or negative, grows in our life

Spiritual bypass and mediation as an escape

Vipassana meditation and seeing clearly

Overcoming the “near enemies” in Buddhism

Equanimity, balance, centering, and fearlessness

Meditation in action and engaging mindfully with the world

Facing our fears and confronting ourselves in meditation practice

Self-acceptance and learning to care for oneself

Not being so afraid of what’s painful

Uncovering the basic mechanics of meditation

Releasing tensions, unskillful concepts, and our limited sense of self

Psychic abilities and intuition

Awareness and moving past our thoughts

Using meditation to relate deeper to your inner life

“Meditative awareness has a healing quality to it.” – Jeffrey Mishlove

“One of the tenets of Buddhism is that the heart, body, and mind can all be trained. That is, if you practice something, it will gradually grow in your life.” – Jack Kornfield

About Jeffrey Mishlove:

Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. Jeffrey holds the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology to be awarded by an accredited American university. Learn more about Dr. Mishlove and his ongoing offerings and interviews at newthinkingallowed.com

Unraveling the mystery of who you truly are, Jack reveals mindfulness as the gateway to liberation within the ever-changing river of life.

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“Mindfulness, in the Buddhist tradition, is said to be the gateway to liberation, the gateway to that which is eternal, to the timeless or the deathless.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

- Mindfulness as the gateway to liberation

- The Buddha’s Eightfold Path and the Middle Way

- Sacred attention, receptivity, and sensitivity

- The prayer of Mad Bear, a magical Iroquois medicine man

- Overcoming worry in the present moment

- Rumi’s transformational poem, The Guest House

- Awareness of breath, body, mind states, feelings, dharma, and the laws of nature

- Using mindfulness as a vehicle to discover who we really are

- Eternity, time, timelessness, change, and becoming deathless

- What it was like when Thich Nhat Hanh visited Spirit Rock

- Entering the “river of life,” humanity’s collective pains, joys, etc

- Dealing with attachment, aversion, grief, and suffering

- Working spiritually with our dreams

- Stepping out of the bureaucracy of ego, thought, and mind

- The freedom of identifying with “the witness”

- Liberation as both practical and radical

“Reality comes out of nothing, exists according to certain patterns, and then disappears. To know this frees us. To not know it, we are bound. This recognition brings us face to face with the mystery.” – Jack Kornfield

“To become mindful is to become free, to have the capacity to step out of the rat race, the speed, the complexity and be who we are, be true to our hearts. There comes a great balance and ease with that. In any moment, we stop the war, we stop the conflict, we come back to be as the Buddha sits, as the Buddha walks, as the Buddha speaks, where we are, just present and alive.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk recorded on 3/1/1992 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

This week, Buddhist Teacher Gil Fronsdal explores our quality of well-being and how we can cultivate ease, happiness, and contentment on the path to inner liberation.

In this talk on cultivating well-being through Buddhist practice, Gil touches on:

- Happiness as something we do not pursue, but cultivate by creating and recognizing conditions for it

- The “three breath journey” meditation practice, which helps to shift perception and be present

- Developing clarity and ease through mindfulness practice

- Transforming challenging emotions and experiences by befriending them non-judgmentally

- Physical presence and awareness in the body as a part of cultivating well-being

- Experimenting with different mindfulness techniques to find what brings you joy and ease

“We create the conditions for happiness, and we learn to recognize the conditions that bring it forth. But we try not to be the cause of happiness, but we are cultivating happiness and well-being.” – Gil Fronsdal